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The Aulic Council is one of the most outstanding European supreme courts of its time and one of the most important institutions of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the early modern period (16th-18th century). In close proximity to the emperor, it dealt with legal disputes and fiefdom, privilege matters and the requests of individuals for help, protection and mediation. The systematic and detailed listing of the records of the Aulic Council preserved in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna provides a comprehensive insight into the tasks of maintaining legal peace with which the Aulic Council had to deal. The records cover not only politically highly explosive conflicts over rule, denomination and territories between the powerful of the Empire; they also make visible everyday disputes over debts, inheritances and provisioning, which were brought before the emperor by nobles and commoners, clergy and laymen, women and men from the entire Empire. The record thus becomes a productive aid both for legal and constitutional history and for the entire intellectual and cultural history of the Old Empire and Europe.

Alte Prager Akten --- Verfassungsgeschichte --- Rechtsgeschichte --- Antiqua --- Denegata antiqua --- Höchstgericht --- Reichshofrat

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This is a new listing of the previously untapped judicial files of the Aulic Council kept in the Austrian State Archives. With the series "Alte Prager Akten", "Antiqua" and "Denegata antiqua", the long-term project will make accessible almost one third of the approximately 80,000 files. The index provides information on the parties as well as new findings on conflicts from the history of law and constitution, social and economic history, criminal, military, technical and craft history. It also records reports addressed to the Emperor by important officials of the Empire and various requests for support of subjects in distress.

Alte Prager Akten --- Verfassungsgeschichte --- Rechtsgeschichte --- Antiqua --- Denegata antiqua --- Höchstgericht --- Reichshofrat

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The Aulic Council is one of the most outstanding European supreme courts of its time and one of the most important institutions of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the early modern period (16th-18th century). In close proximity to the emperor, it dealt with legal disputes and fiefdom, privilege matters and the requests of individuals for help, protection and mediation. The systematic and detailed listing of the records of the Aulic Council preserved in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna provides a comprehensive insight into the tasks of maintaining legal peace with which the Aulic Council had to deal. The records cover not only politically highly explosive conflicts over rule, denomination and territories between the powerful of the Empire; they also make visible everyday disputes over debts, inheritances and provisioning, which were brought before the emperor by nobles and commoners, clergy and laymen, women and men from the entire Empire. The record thus becomes a productive aid both for legal and constitutional history and for the entire intellectual and cultural history of the Old Empire and Europe.

Alte Prager Akten --- Verfassungsgeschichte --- Rechtsgeschichte --- Antiqua --- Denegata antiqua --- Höchstgericht --- Reichshofrat

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The Aulic Council, together with the Imperial Chamber Court, exercised supreme jurisdiction in the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of the Emperor. It also acted as the supreme feudal court, as an advisory body to the head of the Empire and as the administrative organ of the exclusively imperial rights, which for example concerned matters of status and privileges. The archival heritage of the Aulic Council is kept in Vienna by the Austrian State Archives. The holdings extend over approximately 1.3 kilometres of shelving with tens of thousands of files containing first-rate sources on the history of Central Europe in the early modern period.

Alte Prager Akten --- Verfassungsgeschichte --- Rechtsgeschichte --- Antiqua --- Denegata antiqua --- Höchstgericht --- Reichshofrat

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The Aulic Council is one of the most outstanding European supreme courts of its time and one of the most important institutions of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the early modern period (16th-18th century). In close proximity to the emperor, it dealt with legal disputes and fiefdom, privilege matters and the requests of individuals for help, protection and mediation. The systematic and detailed listing of the records of the Aulic Council preserved in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna provides a comprehensive insight into the tasks of maintaining legal peace with which the Aulic Council had to deal. The records cover not only politically highly explosive conflicts over rule, denomination and territories between the powerful of the Empire; they also make visible everyday disputes over debts, inheritances and provisioning, which were brought before the emperor by nobles and commoners, clergy and laymen, women and men from the entire Empire. The record thus becomes a productive aid both for legal and constitutional history and for the entire intellectual and cultural history of the Old Empire and Europe.

Alte Prager Akten --- Verfassungsgeschichte --- Rechtsgeschichte --- Antiqua --- Denegata antiqua --- Höchstgericht --- Reichshofrat